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Think about this: I offer you a free broadband connection on a couple of terms: #1: you must leave your computer on at all times, and #2: You must install and leave installed my special little distributed computing applet.
When your machine is idle, it would connect to my servers and become a node in a massive cluster. I could then sell time on this cluster to companies and individuals with needs for extreme processing power.
Interesting idea, no?
I miss the old wacky Japanese titles that barely made it to the US. Games like Jumping Flash and Bust-a-Groove were qwirky and fun enough to hold my intrest.
Im a former Marine myself, and I fondly remember what a nightmare it was just trying to get everyone to have the same crypto loads for existing voice communications hardware. Im really curious as to how they propose to keep the network secure.
On the other hand, the possible benifits are huge. Distributed sensor networks in particular could be revolutionized by this.
Im hoping they include the trust Gong 10-gauge pistol from the original in this one. That thing was bad-ass (Though in reality would result in broken wrists).
I always thought taking advantage of one of the Lagrange (sp?) points made more sense for this sort of endevor. That way your clear of the earths debris feild (cough...Thanks NASA...Cough) and the opposing gravity/centrifugal force influences effectively cancel eachother out.
BTW the moon might not be useful as a platform for weapons, or the garrisoning of troops, but it would provide a handy platform for anti-satilite beam weapons.
Psst.... Theres a black helicopter over your house right now!!
Seriously, I dont like PATRIOT and the other crap pushed on us by the paniced public any more than anybody else, but saying the Navy shot down that plane is just ignorant.
There are some uses for these that aren't necessarily obvious. For a long time the US Military has been researching ways to protect troops eyes from blinding lasers (Lasers that scan for relflective surfaces like eye-balls which they then pulse with enough energy to damage).
One Idea that has repeatedly come up was to give the troop a sort of "blind cockpit" to operate from. This would be acheived by making a pair of goggles with high res screens on the inside and an exterior studded with an array of small, inexpensive cameras. By feeding the data from the cameras through a processor then to the troops veiw, you seperate his/her eyes from the danger. This would also allow the troop to have a sort of HUD overlay as well as easily integrated nightvision (IR receptive CCD's scattered amoung the visible light CCD's).
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Think about this: I offer you a free broadband connection on a couple of terms: #1: you must leave your computer on at all times, and #2: You must install and leave installed my special little distributed computing applet. When your machine is idle, it would connect to my servers and become a node in a massive cluster. I could then sell time on this cluster to companies and individuals with needs for extreme processing power. Interesting idea, no?
Im guessing these aren't the garden variety of Gnomes.
I miss the old wacky Japanese titles that barely made it to the US. Games like Jumping Flash and Bust-a-Groove were qwirky and fun enough to hold my intrest.
Im a former Marine myself, and I fondly remember what a nightmare it was just trying to get everyone to have the same crypto loads for existing voice communications hardware. Im really curious as to how they propose to keep the network secure. On the other hand, the possible benifits are huge. Distributed sensor networks in particular could be revolutionized by this.
Just so they dont make the Simalarion. That was freaking painful!
L5 is on the dark side of the moon right? I saw a chart of these things once and havent found one again since.
Im hoping they include the trust Gong 10-gauge pistol from the original in this one. That thing was bad-ass (Though in reality would result in broken wrists).
I always thought taking advantage of one of the Lagrange (sp?) points made more sense for this sort of endevor. That way your clear of the earths debris feild (cough...Thanks NASA...Cough) and the opposing gravity/centrifugal force influences effectively cancel eachother out. BTW the moon might not be useful as a platform for weapons, or the garrisoning of troops, but it would provide a handy platform for anti-satilite beam weapons.
It'd be sweet to wire one of these into the front of a casing & set it up as a secondary monitor for performance data.
Psst.... Theres a black helicopter over your house right now!! Seriously, I dont like PATRIOT and the other crap pushed on us by the paniced public any more than anybody else, but saying the Navy shot down that plane is just ignorant.
There are some uses for these that aren't necessarily obvious. For a long time the US Military has been researching ways to protect troops eyes from blinding lasers (Lasers that scan for relflective surfaces like eye-balls which they then pulse with enough energy to damage). One Idea that has repeatedly come up was to give the troop a sort of "blind cockpit" to operate from. This would be acheived by making a pair of goggles with high res screens on the inside and an exterior studded with an array of small, inexpensive cameras. By feeding the data from the cameras through a processor then to the troops veiw, you seperate his/her eyes from the danger. This would also allow the troop to have a sort of HUD overlay as well as easily integrated nightvision (IR receptive CCD's scattered amoung the visible light CCD's).